# Cherries Branch # 2

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519328
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Perry, KY
- **Operator:** Kern Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** Kern  Brashear
- **Public source rows linked:** 11
- **Source coverage:** 6 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Kern  Brashear (C13190) → Kern Coal Company Inc (P19095) → Cherries Branch # 2 (1519328)**

Current identity source: `msha-mines`. This is a current snapshot, not a historical claim.

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Kern  Brashear → Kern Coal Company Inc:** 2008-10-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519328; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- Interval anomalies: 0
- Valid-time bounds: inclusive; date granularity; null end means open-ended in the upstream history row; not independent proof of present control.
- Transaction-time observation: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 3 violation rows across the full record; 2 carry an S&S flag and $359 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 noise rows have an action-level or PEL dose above 100%. These are separate measures, not a silica exceedance count. Silica results and sample status are shown separately.
4. **PRODUCTION — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 0 linked entities:** Contractors Contractors are linked through this mine’s violation or accident records. Their production and hours cover all their operations, so they are not included in this mine’s totals.
7. **INSPECTIONS — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 2 inspection events and 21 published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

No matched record in the 2024 EIA coal-public workbook. This may be inapplicable for a non-coal operation.

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 48.26 — Experienced miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.26

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2011-12-20 through 2011-12-20; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 3 rows; 2008-10-27 through 2008-10-27; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2008-10-09 through 2008-10-09; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 2 rows; 2008-10-27 through 2008-12-15; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 3 rows; 2008-10-27 through 2008-10-27; source ID `msha-violations`

## Caveats

- This is public-record decision support, not legal advice or an official MSHA record.
- Missing data can indicate no event, publication delay, an unresolved identity, or inapplicability.
- Contractor production data is entity-level and is not attributed to this mine.

## Alternate representations

- HTML: `/mines/cherries-branch-2-1519328`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/cherries-branch-2-1519328`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519328/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519328/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519328/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`